I recently found a book in my local second hand shop called The Ship Of Stars, written by "Q" ("Q" is actually a pen name, the authors real name is Arthur T. Quiller-Couch). The book was published in 1899 and is a plain smallish brown-red book. I wanted to make this book into a kind of a visual journal, but not a journal in the traditional sense - more of a response to the book and what the book "brings out" in me - as in what is created through my interaction with it. My response is not necessarily to the written content of the book, but rather a visceral response to the sensory aspect of the book as a whole including all the imagined memories it holds from its previous users.... I am becoming more and more interested in my relationship to the objects I use when creating and how inextricably linked myself and the object is. In fact, without the object I could not create that one unique thing in that one unique moment....
